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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

Subject : certifications
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Explicitly teaches strategies and techniques for studying texts and acquiring meaning






2. The ancient Britons (Celts) conquered by Caesar in 54 c.e. - Celtic and Latin languages co-exist - Teutonic tribes (Jutes - Angles and Saxons invade) - Anglo-Saxon layer of language






3. A score that describes student performance in terms of the statistical performance of an average student at a given grade level. Ranges from K.0 to 12.9 Are not a dependable representation of progress






4. Two vowels standing adjacent in the same syllable whose sounds blend smoothly together in one syllable. There are only four diphthongs in English. These are ou/out - ow/cow - oi/oil - oy - boy






5. 1877 - first to use the term "word-blindness"






6. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder






7. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)






8. The curved diacritical mark above a vowel in a sound picture or phonic/dictionary symbol notation that indicates a short sound in a closed syllable in which at least one consonant comes after the vowel in the same syllable.






9. Multisensory Structured Language






10. A single functioning or signaling unit of our word patterns. The separate sound units of spoken words.






11. Ability to think reason and solve problems. Skills are usually measured by an individual test of intelligence/IQ test. Requires being able to generalize from past experience and use that knowledge to respond to new situations.






12. Confirmation and Fluency - Decoding skills - Fluency - additional strategies

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13. Alphabetic principle" and its relationship to phonemic awareness and phonological awareness in reading






14. Closed syllable - open syllable - vowel- consonant-e - r controlled syllable - vowel team - final stable syllable






15. Feeling through fingertips






16. Words that are able to be broken apart by the position of the vowels and consonants in order to pronounce.






17. Set of principles that dictate the sequence and function of words in a sentence in order to convey meaning - must include grammar - sentence types - and mechanics of language






18. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






19. Vowel - consonant - e syllable






20. Use - pictures - charts - maps - graphs - etc...clear view of teacher - color to highlight important text - ask teacher to provide handouts - illustrate ideas as pictures before writing them down - use multi media






21. Refers tot he measurement consistency of a test






22. Initial Reading - Letters represent sounds - sound-spelling relationships

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23. Three adjacent letters which represent one speech sound (tch)






24. The term is also used for the language now called Old English - spoken and written by the ________ and their descendants in much of what is now England and some of southeastern Scotland between at least the mid-5th century and the mid-12th century.






25. A spoken or written unit that must have a vowel sound and that may include consonants that precede or follow that vowel. Syllables are units of sound made by one impulse of voice.






26. Individual Educational Plan






27. The knowledge of the various sounds in the English language and their correspondence to the letter or letters that represent those sounds.






28. The writing system of a language. Correct or standardized spelling according to established usage.






29. Effective for special needs - Uses all possible senses - tracing - saying - listening - looking - Typically called VAKT - Visual - Auditory - Kinesthetic - Tactile - Can be used with either Phonics or Whole Language






30. Participate in classroom discussions - make speeches/presentations - use tape records during lectures - read text out loud - create musical jingles - create mnemonics to aid memorization - discuss ideas verbally






31. Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing. Screening test. test phonological awareness - phonological memory - rapid naming...norms given in Percentiles - Standard Scores - Age and Grade Equivalents






32. Was a major change in the pronunciation of the English language that took place in England between 1350 and 1500.[1] This was first studied by Otto Jespersen (1860-1943) - a Danish linguist and Anglicist - who coined the term. Because English spellin






33. Children may be physical and socially immature - may be awkward in social situations - may have difficulty reading social cues - may have trouble finding the right words - stammering. - may feel anxious in school






34. Selective focus on what is important while screening out distractions.






35. Proceeds from the whole to the part - suggests that processing of a text begins in the mind of the readers. Meaning is brought to print not derived from print.






36. Nationally known for research on both the prevention and remediation of reading difficulties in young children as well as work on assessment of phonological awareness and reading






37. r-controlled syllable






38. A syllable ending with a long vowel sound. (labor - freedom)






39. Reading can be learned as naturally as speaking - reading is focused on constructing meaning from texts using children's books rather than basal or controlled readers - reading is best learned in the context of the group - phonics is taught indirectl






40. 1930 - Psychologist and teacher in New York; along with Samuel T. Orton at Columbia University - developed a non-traditional approach to teaching written language skills. Trained one teacher at a time. began working with Sally Childs and trained 50 t






41. Changes in curriculum - supplementary aides or equipment - and provision of specialized facilities that allow students to participate in educational environment to fullest extent possible.






42. Final stable syllable

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43. Study of sounds and how the work within their environment






44. Words used in more formal settings - Often found in literature - science - social studies in upper elem. texts. Longer than words of Anglo-Saxon Origin.






45. Inferential learning of a concept cannot be take for granted! Never assume!






46. International Multisensory Structured Education Council






47. Visual-Auditory-Kinesthetic/Tactile






48. Present the parts of the language and then teaches how the parts work together to make a whole. Part of a MSLE Program






49. A step taken by school personnel to determine which students are at risk for not meeting grade level standards.






50. Expects child to learn reading as "naturally" as speech - Uses child's oral language as content for reading - Uses child's oral language as basis for spelling instruction - Children learn to "read" by reading and re-reading "big books" together with

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